Mummers

She heard the bell at the theatre calling the mummers to the performance, and she saw, passing opposite, men with white faces and women in faded gowns going in at the stage-door. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He spends all his time in palaces; he will want to come home to a house which feels like a home and not a great cathedral filled by a band of mummers, which is what the royal palaces are like. ❋ Philippa Gregory (1996)

The mummers is a year long tradition that generates over nine million dollars for the local economy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The influence of indignation upon the voice caused me to reflect that we might devise a mechanical means of inflaming some in that constellation of mummers which is the heritage of the Anglo-Saxon race. ❋ Stephen Crane (1885)

To-day in the temples of India, or among the lamas of Thibet, the priests dance the demons out, or the new year in, arrayed in animal masks (Ibid., p. 297); and the "mummers" at Yule-tide, in England, are a survival of the same custom. ❋ Ignatius Donnelly (1866)

We meet mummers, hobby horses, tups and all kinds of other fascinating festivities. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Even the king is brought back to life by the doctor after being stabbed by the wily Turk in the mummers' play. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Afternoon indoor games, evening masques and banquets a seemingly endless procession of entertainers in the great hall: mummers, acrobats, tumblers, merchants with fabulous, wares to sell -- anyone with something to offer the jaundiced courtiers was welcome at Greenwich in this season. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We are our own carolers, we are our own mummers, we are our own wassailers. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2009)

The videos on her site supplement her second album -- "Two Suns," to be released Tuesday -- and include a clip for the single "Daniel," in which Ms. Khan is confronted by dancing mummers wearing black balloons. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Anonymous hey i could definitely picture him as one of the bloody mummers, not sure which one just yet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He'd maybe make a good member of the mummers though ; ❋ Unknown (2009)

Adult classes, for age 13 and older, include contra, clog, and swing dance, longsword, family band for ages 10 and up, mummers, and harmony. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those who wanted all these properties, blacked their faces, and turned their jackets inside out; and thus the transmutation of the whole assembly into a set of mad grotesque mummers, was at once completed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“To whom shall I yield me?” said the bonnet maker, with a faltering voice; for, though he saw he had to do with a party of mummers who were afoot for pleasure, yet he observed at the same time that they were far above his class, and he lost the audacity necessary to support his part in a game where the inferior was likely to come by the worst. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Juvenile jugglers, diminutive dancers, adolescent acrobats and a host of other moppets and mummers present a full show of vernal vaudeville. ❋ Michael Evans (2006)

I watched two [drunken] mummers [blow] each other on [new years day]! ❋ A Palumbo (2007)

[Hello] [Mummers], I have [a problem]... ❋ Proud Mummer (2016)

Any [mummers] 'loud in? ❋ Buddy Wasisname (2005)

Cindy: Oooh! This song is really nice! What's it called? Hairstylist: Yeah, it's called "The [Mummer's] Dance". It's by [Loreena Mckennitt]. Cindy: Ah. What's a [mummer]? Hairstylist: I... don't know. I've never even heard the word before I listened to this song. Genial Irishman: They're travelling actors, me fair lasses. Cindy & Hairstylist: Oh... Like, awesome! ❋ Vampiro413 (2009)

[I came] home today and found my [bedroom] had been totally mummerized! She'd only [gone] and categorized all my clothes and I can't find anything. ❋ Quiapia (2015)

Dude, i totally pulled off the ultimate [mummer cummer] last night with [my gf's] [mum]. She was screaming so loud! ❋ Tizzle30 (2007)